Welcome to this website. I am a scholar in the field of religious studies and gender studies, currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the VU University Amsterdam, where I work in the VIDI project ‘Unequal Partners? An Ethnographic Study of Christian-Jewish and Christian-Muslim Couples in the Netherlands’. I am also the current managing editor of the interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal Religion and Gender. 

In 2022, I obtained my (double) PhD at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and at the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at UGent in Belgium. My dissertation was titled ‘Questioning the Conversion Paradox: Gender, Sexuality, and Belonging amongst Women Becoming Jewish, Christian, and Muslim in the Netherlands’. The research applied qualitative research methods to comparatively study women’s conversions to Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Netherlands. The dissertation will be published (in modified form) as a monograph with Routledge, provisionally titled ‘Conversion, Gender, Race’. 

My expertise is interdisciplinary and shaped by critical engagements with gender, race and religion. My conceptual framework is generally informed by studies of gender, sexuality, religion, mixedness, secularity and race-religion intersections. Thematically, I usually work from a critical comparative and ethnographic approach, focusing primarily on contemporary Judaism, Islam and Christianity in the European context. My work is further characterised by a critical intersectional feminist/queer approach to the question of religion and secularity, through a focus on everyday religious/secular practices and expressions. See my publications on this website

Email: l.l.schrijvers [at] vu.nl

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